Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24
Railways the Forerunnert, of q Period of
Prosperity as Well as of Civilization
Many Industrial Opportunities

the material development of land.
The land is conducive to and capable
OF the highest material development
where its condition brings into exercise
every intelligent activity of mind and
hand, provides the highest results Tor
the least labor bestowed.
In land where too great part OF the
products of activity must be consumed
as necessities, where the climate enforces
great period of idleness, where the pro-
ducts are few in kind and simple in
character and Of little demand, requiring
little of skill, there must be less oppor-
tunity for a high development and a
higher advanced civilization.
! In land where natural products are
abundant, the climate favorable to exer-
ton and production, where nature favors
! the producer of raw material and favors
existence at less expensive OUTLAWS, there
VIII be naturally the highest degree of
civilization, the highest material develop
ment.
| Where all means of labor and mechan-
ical skill in producing achieve the highest
results there will be the survival of the
tittest, and there will an enlightened CIV
! ilization most rapidly extend. There will
it abide.
Mans condition, his temptations, his
indictments are from q degree of self
activity which has no control, no cultivs-
ton, but nothing can suppress it. It ex-
lists in association with the worlds ma
terial activity, ead is given fields for eX-
ercise and led to development by those
associations and incentives which men
value.
The only variation from these natural
laws being that spirit of emulation, that
love of self-aCtiVe creation which spurs
mankind TO efforts for greater achieve
mentS.
If then mans nature is largely de-
termined by climate, opportunities, and
associations, we must look for mans
highest development in activity and in
civilization in that most favorable climate
and in connection with the most varied
condition of materials for the exercise of
his selt-aCtive facilities.
To this end it is well that Canada has
not been a part of the United States.
The disposition to use the most favorable
climate and soil would hive left the
more northern land undeveloped had
not the pride of the mother country led
to force development land even a
lower degree of civilization upon that
more barren land.
When the people of the United States
pay little attention to the northern Maine,
New Hampshire, New York, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota, they would
have paid still less attention to lands
further to the north, and these northern
borders are even now better developed
because of the existence of forced
unnatural development still farther
Ac hn Hc
grand wind break to the civilization Of
the northern Paaific. On the other hand
the fact that slavery was then profitable
caused it to extend and overshadow
all other sources of material de-
velopment in he southern states, while
its influence prevented that higher order
OF civilization and diversified material
development thus confined and forced into
existence in the states north OF the
Potomac and the Ohio and south of
Canada.
The forbidding climatic conditions re-
stricted civilized development on the
north, while the proftableness Of slavery
bounded the development of diversified
industrial civilization to the southwark
At the same time necessities and the
system of slavery determined the indus
acres titled by slave la5or in producing
cotton, and sugar and tobacco, were u
distinct industrial system from that of
growing wheat and corn, and dairying,
and the development OF iron and coal
mines, and water and steam power. The
use of brute labor and brute force are
the same in all localities, the Shareholder
made brute of the negro, while the more
northern people made brutes of their
oxen and horses. Both are to make
slaves of steam henceforward. The
existence of slavery and the noR-devel-
opment of the states south of the Poto-
mac and Ohio was favorable to the fuller
development of the more sterile, more
rugged and less promising localities and
climate of the northern states, while the
unsettled condition of the southern states
since the war has still forced intelligent
industrial development to the north and
west until these are becoming compare
lively well occupied, and there is a de-
mand for the occupation of the south as
there was that the railroads should cross
Southwest Canada, and at the same the
southern animus has gone out.
Had the south been developed the rail-
roads would have been more numerous,
and instead of running diegonslly from
the southwest TO Chicago, would have
had direction and an outlet further
southwark.
Thus much OF the past and present.
What Of the future? The highest c0ndi- !
ton % the nations development and
civilization is a. present with the northern
be OF states, Atlantic 10 the Pacific. |
is severe. the territory is !
the spirit of adventure and en-
t5rpriae cannot be accommodated. a
new field ia demanded. a surplus CT in !
telitgeuce, sctivigy, energy, skill, wealth /
E3d Visiting power is in the north, 1t must /
lsve new Industrial worlds TO conquer.
Unknown, or but partially explored, !
mas been land bordering On the south |
from Maryland to Louisiana and the Mis-
sisBippi, of AZ, E95 square miles, nearly
equal in extent to those of the northern
states OF Maine 10 Minnesota and the
OF 495, 6s9 square miles, equal
n value for every purpose Of occupation,
cultivation and production, with equal
esources in every respect and climatic
advantage tenth greater, variety Of
product one-Jenth greater, SO that these
outhern states really have nearly 100000
quare miles more of resource !han the
orth. ~ Is
These southern states Gon 1araduce
Verything the north can produce, yhnd
ottOn and sugar and rice and lute and
annie which the north cannot, can CAVITY
n all outdoor business one-fftbP loi4fer
nd at one-ffth less climatic disLS1vse-t |
age of fuel, fodder of lstc plghting And I
arly harvesting, their5watsr power3isI :
quail, the navigable waters equal, 80 !
le advantage of a bettexscosst SEs9u5ug, -